this is an overstated example, but . . . i don't really want to play with tempos and values to accomplish this. and, i need to know mostly if these patterns that are developed in the pattern editor can 'drive' the output.

in a more ridiculous example, what if i wanted to set the voice patterns as follows (pick a base value, doesn't matter):

the above are very close, and can of course be farther apart, but if you play them long enough, they do come in and out of phase, which is a nice effect. a more practical example which have used a lot in the past with 'click tracks' and real people playing is to take what i call 'harmonic tempo relationships', which in a practical real world performance context can take a lot of the complexity out of notation and performance, such as:

I noticed strangeness in odd time signatures as well, and not just when using patterns. I was playing around with a 9/8 time signature and noticed that when the piece restarts there are a few extra beats of silence (rests) before the notes are triggered. I made sure that %rest was set to zero, and I tried setting the piece length to 1 and 2 just so that it would cycle through 9 eighth notes and repeat, but always a few extra beats of silence.

Edit:

I think it's the piece length parameter that is confusing me. It measures the length in time units instead of measures. Makes it almost impossible to get a repeating pattern to sync to a time signature.